Somewhere in New York City, in a penthouse apartment on East 76th Street, there is a woman who woke up one morning in August 2019 as one of the 10 richest people on Earth. She did not build an empire. She did not code an algorithm or disrupt an industry or take a company public. She had been married for 23 years to a man who had already built all of those things.
And when he died, she inherited a 42% stake in one of the largest privately held companies in American history. One day, she was the wife of a billionaire. The next day, she was worth somewhere between 50 and 80 billion dollars, depending on who was doing the counting. And she was entirely alone with the weight of it.
Her name is Julia Foch. Before August 2019, almost no one outside Manhattan’s most exclusive social circles had heard of her. Since then, she has been navigating the specific and genuinely extraordinary challenge of managing a fortune built across three generations by men and deciding, quietly, on her own terms, what comes next.
Indianola, Iowa and the girl who had no idea. Julia Margaret Foch was born on April 12th, 1962 in Des Moines, Iowa or Indianola, Iowa, depending on the source. Both being small Midwestern cities within a few miles of each other. Both reflecting a world entirely unlike the one she would eventually inhabit. Her parents ran a furniture store.
Her childhood was organized around the specific practical rhythms of a small business family in the American Midwest. Modest, decent, hard-working, organized around local community rather than national ambition. She was, by all available accounts, a bright and socially adept young woman who had enough ambition and enough curiosity to look beyond the specific geography of her upbringing.
She attended the University of Central Arkansas after her family moved to Arkansas when she was 8 years old, studying there before the pull of a larger world eventually drew her northeast. She moved to New York City in the 1980s. A young woman from the Midwest arriving in the city that was, in the 1980s, both at its most dangerous and at its most electrifying.
A city of enormous creative and social energy organized around the specific economy of fashion, finance, and the arts. She found work in fashion. She became an assistant to Adolfo, a Cuban-born fashion designer whose clientele included some of the most prominent women in American society, among them Nancy Reagan, the First Lady of the United States, whose relationship with Adolfo was sufficiently close that his name appeared in coverage of White House social events with some regularity.
Working for Adolfo meant working in rooms full of women who were the wives and partners of the men who ran the country, the banks, and the major American institutions. Julia Fleischer, 20-something from a furniture store in Iowa, learned those rooms from the inside. She was earning approximately $200 a week. That access, the specific access of someone who understands a world from working in it rather than simply observing it, was the education that no university she could have attended would have provided.
She learned how New York’s elite social world worked, what it valued, what it dismissed, how it recognized the people who belonged in it, and how it managed the people who were merely adjacent to it. She was, by every account of people who observed her in those years, someone who possessed the specific quality of social intelligence that those rooms rewarded.
The ability to be genuinely warm and genuinely composed simultaneously. To make whoever she was speaking to feel that she was fully present and fully attentive. The specific world she was inhabiting by the early 1990s was a world that the girl from the furniture store in Iowa had earned access to through genuine effort rather than through connection or inheritance.
She was not born into New York’s social world. She had arrived in it from the outside, taken a job paying $200 a week, and developed through that job the specific understanding of how the world worked that no amount of reading about it would have provided. She knew which events mattered and which didn’t. She knew how the people in those rooms talked to each other and what they valued in the people they encountered.
She had, in the specific language of social positioning, done the work. In 1991, she went on a blind date with a man named David Koch. It did not go well. She described the experience in one of the rare public statements she made about the early days of their relationship as having given her the specific certainty that this was a man she never wanted to see again.
She had been introduced to one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in America, and her response was not to be dazzled, but to be unimpressed. This is the detail that every account of Julia Flesher tends to include, and it is worth dwelling on. She met David Koch and did not want to see him again. In a city and a social world organized substantially around proximity to money and power, this particular young woman from Iowa had a reaction that was organized around something else.
And then, later that year, they were at the same party and something shifted. The Koch empire, what she was marrying into. To understand what Julia Flesher was marrying when she married David Koch in May 1996, you have to understand what Koch Industries was and how it got to be what it was. Fred Chase Koch was the patriarch, a chemical engineer born in 1900 in Quanah, Texas, who developed a new and more efficient process for refining crude oil into gasoline in the late 1920s.
His process worked better than the processes the major oil companies were using, and the major oil companies responded to this by suing him repeatedly and attempting to prevent his technology from being used. Fred Koch was not a man who found adversity discouraging. He pursued his work, eventually built a refining operation in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s under Stalin, which was a complicated moral choice that Koch himself later expressed genuine regret about, and returned to the United States to found what would eventually become Koch
Industries in Wichita, Kansas, in 1940. Fred Koch’s politics were, to put it plainly, far to the right of most of his contemporaries. He was a founding member of the John Birch Society, the anti-communist organization that occupied the most extreme edge of the American conservative movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He believed that the federal government was engaged in a systematic effort to destroy American freedom and that the only appropriate response was organized resistance. He passed these convictions to his sons along with the company when he died of a heart attack while duck hunting in Utah in 1967. He had four sons Frederick, Charles, David, and William.
The family dynamics among them were the stuff of decades-long legal battles and public acrimony. Frederick and William eventually sued Charles and David over the distribution of the family estate, a legal conflict that produced hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and generated years of bitter public statements between siblings.
The schism in the Koch family was not simply financial. It was personal, lasting, and genuinely ugly. Charles and David took the company their father had built and transformed it into something almost unrecognizable in scale. Charles ran the operation from Wichita as its chairman and CEO. David stayed involved as executive vice president while building a separate life as one of New York City’s most prominent social figures.
Together, they diversified Koch Industries from its oil refining roots into one of the most sprawling privately held conglomerates in the world. Paper and pulp products through Georgia-Pacific, petroleum through Flint Hills Resources, synthetic fiber and polymers through Invista, software through Infor, glass through Guardian Industries, fertilizer and commodity trading through various subsidiaries.
By the time Julia Flescher married David Koch, Koch Industries had revenues exceeding $100 billion a year and employed more than 120,000 people across 50 countries. The brother wars, the legal battles between Frederick and William on one side and Charles and David on the other, were themselves a story worth telling.
William and Frederick sued in 1980, claiming they had been bought out of the company at below market value and that Charles and David had misrepresented the company’s worth. The litigation ran for more than 15 years, consuming enormous legal resources and generating the specific kind of family bitterness that only the combination of very large sums of money and very personal grievances can produce.
It eventually settled with Frederick and William receiving hundreds of millions of dollars. But the relationships between the four Koch brothers never fully recovered. Bill Koch, David’s twin, became one of his most vocal public critics, giving interviews in which he described the company’s business practices in ways that contradicted the family’s preferred narrative.
The Koch brothers’ political activities were, by the time Julia entered David’s life, already in development. David’s 1980 libertarian vice-presidential candidacy had been the most visible expression of a political ideology that both he and Charles held with genuine conviction. The belief that government interference in markets was not simply economically inefficient, but morally wrong, a violation of the fundamental freedom of individuals to make their own choices without coercion.
The political network they went on to build was not cynical. It was the expression of a sincere and deeply held worldview applied to the mechanisms of American democratic politics. This was the empire Julia was marrying into. She was 33 years old and she was marrying a man who was 23 years older than she was and who controlled one of the largest concentrations of private wealth in the world.
David Koch, the man behind the fortune. David Hamilton. Koch was born on May 3rd, 1940 in Wichita, Kansas, the younger of the two brothers who would eventually run Koch Industries together and the twin of William Koch who would become his adversary in the family’s legal battles. He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied chemical engineering, a practical training that was consistent with the company his father had built and graduated with a master’s degree in 1962.
He was, by most accounts of people who knew him, a genuinely unusual figure for a man of his specific position and wealth. He was tall, 6 feet 5 inches, physically imposing, and possessed of a quality of personal warmth and genuine wit that contradicted the image of the Koch brothers as purely ideological operators.
He loved ballet. He loved art. He loved parties and conversation and the specific pleasures of the New York social world in ways that his brother Charles, the more austere of the two, did not. He was the one who moved to New York and became a patron of the arts and a figure in society while Charles stayed in Wichita and ran the operation.
He was also a Libertarian Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1980, running on a platform that included the elimination of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the FBI, the CIA, and the minimum wage. The ticket received approximately 1% of the national vote. It was the last time David Koch ran for office, but the ideology that animated the campaign became the foundation for one of the most significant political funding operations in American history.
He and his brother Charles co-founded Americans for Prosperity in 2004, the political network that became the primary funding vehicle for the Tea Party movement, for opposition to the Affordable Care Act, for campaigns against climate change regulation, and for dozens of conservative and libertarian candidates and causes at every level of American government.
The Koch political network spent somewhere in the vicinity of $400 million on the 2012 election cycle alone. It was not secret that the money was coming from the Koch brothers, but the specific mechanics of how it moved through nonprofit organizations and political action committees were deliberately obscured in ways that generated enormous controversy about the role of private money in American democracy.
David Koch was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1992, two years before he met Julia properly. He underwent multiple treatments over the following decades, surgery, radiation, hormone therapy, and managed the disease without for many years, allowing it to significantly affect his public life. He remained involved in Koch Industries, in his political activities, in his philanthropy, and in the New York social world that he loved.
He donated $100 million to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, which was renamed the David H. Koch Theater. He gave major gifts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the American Museum of Natural History, to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, to MIT. He was a figure of genuine generosity in the world of New York cultural and medical philanthropy.
And this dimension of his life existed in genuine tension with his political activities. He was, simultaneously, one of the most generous patrons of New York’s cultural institutions, and one of the primary funders of organizations working to dismantle the government programs that the residents of those same institutions depended on.
The tension between David Koch’s philanthropic generosity and his political activities was one that was noted repeatedly by observers of his public life. He gave $100 million to Lincoln Center, which benefited enormous numbers of New Yorkers who used the theater and concert halls that his money helped fund. He gave 50 million to the Metropolitan Museum.
He gave tens of millions to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the hospital where he himself received cancer treatment. He funded the renovation of the mall in Washington, D.C. He was, by any measure of pure giving, one of the most generous philanthropists of his generation. At the same time, the political network he and Charles had built spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades working to dismantle or reduce the government programs, Medicaid, public education funding, environmental regulation, that many of the beneficiaries of his
cultural and medical philanthropy relied on. The contradiction was visible, and it was pointed out regularly by critics. His defenders argued that the contradiction was not a contradiction at all, that private philanthropy was superior to government programs precisely because it was voluntary, and discriminating, and accountable.
His critics argued that the philanthropy was a form of reputation management that made the political activities more palatable. In June 2018, his health had deteriorated to the point where Charles sent a letter to Koch Industries employees announcing that David was stepping down from his roles as executive vice president, board member, and chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
He was 78 years old, and the cancer that he had been managing for 26 years was no longer manageable in the way it had been. He died on August 23rd, 2019 at his home in Southampton, New York. He was 79 years old. Julia was 57. The marriage, 23 years between two worlds. Julia Flescher and David Koch were together from the party where they reconnected in 1991 to his death in August 2019 for approximately 28 years.
They married on May 25th, 1996 at his home on Meadow Lane in Southampton. A private ceremony that reflected the specific preference for privacy that would define Julia’s approach to public life for the rest of their time together. The 5 years between 1991 and their 1996 wedding were the years in which Julia Flescher became a permanent fixture in the world that David Koch inhabited.
She moved through New York’s social and philanthropic landscape with the ease of someone who had been watching it from the inside for years and had now been admitted to it on her own terms. She was genuinely liked, which is different from being merely accepted. She had friends in the city who valued her for who she was rather than for whose wife she would eventually be.
This distinction mattered and it showed. She stopped working in 1993, 3 years before the wedding, transitioning from her fashion career to the specific full-time engagement with their relationship and eventually their family that the marriage would require. Their three children arrived across a decade. David Jr., Mary Julia, and John Mark.
The family lived primarily in a penthouse at 110 East 76th Street in Manhattan and maintained the Southampton estate that David had owned for years. They also had a home in Palm Beach, Florida. The marriage brought Julia into a world of extraordinary scale and complexity, not simply the money, though the money was extraordinary, but the social obligations, the philanthropic commitments, the political entanglements, and the specific public exposure that came with being the wife of someone who was, by the 2000s, one of
the most publicly controversial figures in American life. The Koch brothers had become in liberal political discourse synonymous with the corruption of American democracy by private money. They were the subject of books, documentaries, investigative journalism, and sustained political opposition from President Obama and others who identified the Koch political network as a specific threat to the democratic process.
David Koch was not, by Julia’s accounts, the figure that his political opponents described. He was a husband and father who was present for school events, who was genuinely attentive to his children, who loved ballet and art and conversation, and the specific warm social world that New York’s most exclusive circles provided.
He was also a man whose political and business decisions had consequences for hundreds of thousands of people who would never meet him and who had no say in those decisions. Julia navigated this specific complexity with the same composed and consistent approach she had brought to everything by maintaining her privacy, by organizing her public life around philanthropy rather than politics, and by declining to engage with the controversies surrounding her husband’s political activities in any direct public way.
She was, by all of available accounts, genuinely beloved in the social world she inhabited. Those who knew her described her as someone who was not performing warmth, but actually possessed it. Someone who remembered the people she met and made them feel genuinely valued rather than simply tolerated. The New York Times, in a profile published during the Koch years, described her as one of those people who appear in New York every few years.
Someone who arrives from out- side the established hierarchy and becomes, through a combination of genuine charm and genuine effort, a figure that the city’s most exclusive circles simply cannot imagine not having been there. It was a description that spoke to something real about how she had navigated the transition from a furniture store in Iowa to the penthouse on East 76th Street.
She chaired the School of American Ballet’s annual fundraising events. She served on the boards of cultural institutions. She gave money to hospitals and universities and arts organizations. She was, on her own terms and in her own way, doing what David was doing in his, using the resources available to build things that would exist beyond the people who funded them.
August 2019, the overnight transformation. When David Koch died on August 23rd, 2019, the financial reality of what Julia had inherited became public very quickly. She and her three children had inherited his 42% stake in Koch Industries. At the time of his death, that stake was valued at approximately $50 billion.
Overnight, Julia Koch became one of the 10 richest people on Earth. She was the richest woman in America, surpassing Alice Walton of the Walmart fortune. She had not sought the distinction. She had not done anything to create the wealth. She had simply been married to a man who was already this rich. And when he died, the wealth transferred to her in the specific and clean legal way of marital inheritance.
The magnitude of what she now controlled is genuinely difficult to process in ordinary terms. Koch Industries, the company that Fred Koch had built from a refining process he developed in the 1920s, that Charles and David had transformed into a global industrial conglomerate, had revenues exceeding $125 billion a year.
It employed more than 120,000 people worldwide. It operated in more than 50 countries. It had subsidiaries in petroleum, chemicals, fertilizers, paper products, glass, software, and commodities trading. It was, simply, one of the largest and most complex private economic entities on Earth. The specific legal and financial mechanics of that inheritance were handled through the provisions of David’s estate, which had been organized over years by lawyers and advisers who understood the specific complexity of transferring a
multi-billion-dollar ownership stake in a privately held company from a deceased individual to his surviving family. Julia’s 42% stake was not simply a bank account that she now controlled. It was an ownership interest in a company that was not publicly traded, meaning there was no liquid market for those shares, no mechanism for simply selling the stake without the agreement of the other owners, and no public price discovery that would establish exactly what it was worth at any given moment.
The estimates of her net worth that Bloomberg and Forbes produced were exactly that, estimates derived from calculations about Koch Industries private revenue and earnings and then applied to the percentage she owned. Charles Koch remained as chairman and CEO. The company’s operational management was not transferred to Julia, but her 42% stake gave her a financial interest and a structural position in the company that could not be ignored.
And the specific relationship between the widow of one co-owner and the surviving co-owner of one of the most significant private companies in American history was not a simple one. Julia had been present in David’s world for 23 years. She understood the company in the way that a spouse who is genuinely attentive to the person she lives with understands the primary preoccupation of that person’s professional life.
She was not a chemical engineer or an industrial executive. She was someone who had watched and listened and understood the shape of the thing even if she had never been inside its operational structure. She stepped forward. She became the president of the David H. Koch Foundation, the charitable organization that her husband had established and that represented the most visible expression of the Koch family’s philanthropic priorities.
She continued the board memberships and the cultural commitments that the marriage had established. She gave a $75 million donation in February 2024 to establish the Julia Koch Family Ambulatory Care Center at NYU Langone’s West Palm Beach location. She was building something that was hers rather than simply maintaining what had been his.
Sports, new stakes, and the next chapter. The acquisition in June 2024 of a 15% stake in BSE Global, the parent company of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, the WNBA’s New York Liberty, and the Barclays Center arena was the most publicly visible indication that Julia Koch was not simply a steward of David Koch’s legacy, but an active investor making her own strategic choices about where the family’s assets should be placed.
The deal valued BSE Global at approximately $6 billion. The Koch family’s 15% stake represented something in the range of $900 million, making it one of the largest sports investment transactions of that period. It was also a specific kind of statement. The Koch family, through Julia’s direction, was planting itself in the world of professional sports in New York City at a moment when the value of sports franchises was growing at a rate that made them among the most attractive available investments for large pools of
capital. This was followed by something even more significant. In 2025, Julia Koch agreed to pay more than $1 billion for a 10% stake in the New York Giants, the NFL franchise that is one of the most storied and most valuable teams in American professional football. The deal valued the Giants at over $10 billion, establishing a new record as the most expensive valuation of any sports team on Earth at the time of the transaction.
The Koch family was spending $1 billion for a 10% ownership stake in a football team. The scale of these investments speaks to the specific nature of the fortune Julia Koch was managing. A billion dollars spent on a 10% stake in a football team was, in the context of a net worth that had grown from $50 billion at the time of David’s death, to somewhere between 74 and 81 billion dollars by 2025, a relatively small allocation of available capital.
The growth in her net worth across the five years since David’s death, from approximately 50 billion to more than 70 billion, was itself a consequence of Koch Industries’ continued expansion and profitability under Charles Koch’s management, a growth that benefited the 42% stake that Julia and her children held.
The Koch fortune, in other words, was not falling. The title of this video uses the word falling not to describe a decline, but to describe a descent. The specific passage of a fortune from the generation that built it to the generation that inherited it. And the specific question of what happens to an empire of this scale when it changes hands.
The political shadow and the deliberate distance. Julia Koch has with considerable care maintained a distance from the political dimension of the Koch family’s legacy that was in David’s lifetime one of the most controversial aspects of their public identity. The Koch political network Americans for Prosperity the affiliated organizations the bi-annual donor conferences the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on conservative and libertarian candidates and causes was David’s project as much as it was Charles’s.
It was organized around a specific ideological vision that David held with genuine conviction. The belief that government had grown too large. The taxation was a form of taking. That regulation of industry was an infringement on freedom. And that the appropriate response was to fund political organizations that could shift the balance of American democracy toward these positions.
David Koch also in his later years broke with parts of the conservative coalition his money had helped build. He and Charles did not support Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Directing their resources instead toward down ballot Senate and House races while declining to endorse the Republican nominee.
This was not simply a political calculation. It was a principled position. The Kochs had specific objections to Trump’s trade positions and his willingness to use executive power in ways that conflicted with their libertarian principles. Julia, since David’s death, has not carried forward the political activism that defined his public identity.
She has not made major donations to political organizations. She has not appeared at conservative political events. She has maintained the philanthropic activities, the arts, the hospitals, the universities, while stepping away from the political dimension of the legacy that generated the most controversy. Whether this represents a genuine disagreement with the political philosophy that organized the Koch network or simply a personal preference for a different kind of public life or a strategic calculation about how
best to maintain the family’s social standing in a changed political environment is something she has not explained publicly. Julia Koch does not give interviews. She does not maintain a significant social media presence. She is, in the most deliberate and most complete sense possible, a private person who happens to own one of the largest private fortunes on Earth.
The children and the question of what comes next. Julia and David Koch had three children across approximately 7 years. David Koch Jr., born around 1999, Mary Julia Koch, born in 2001, and John Mark Koch, born around 2006. They are, in 2025, young adults and an adolescent. The oldest in his mid-20s, the youngest in his late teens.
They are, alongside their mother, the inheritors of a 42% stake in Koch Industries that was, when their father died, worth $50 billion and has grown substantially since. The question of what the next generation does with that inheritance and how the Koch political and industrial legacy navigates the transition from the founders who built it to the heirs who received it is one of the most significant questions in American business and philanthropy in the years ahead.
David Koch Jr. and Mary Julia Koch are, as of the early 2020s, largely out of the public eye. Mary Julia attended Harvard. David Jr. has not been the subject of significant public coverage. John Mark, the youngest, was still in school as of the most recent coverage. None of them has made the kind of public statement or taken the kind of public action that would allow observers to understand clearly what their orientation toward the Koch Industries legacy and the Koch political legacy will be.
What is known is that Julia has expressed, in the limited public statements she has made, a desire to raise her children with a sense of responsibility rather than a sense of entitlement. A distinction that is easier to articulate than to achieve when the children in question are the heirs to $74 billion and the surnames they carry open every door they will ever approach.
She has spoken about wanting them to understand that the wealth is a responsibility rather than simply a gift, which is the kind of statement that every generation of very wealthy parents makes and that only subsequent events can evaluate. Charles Koch, now in his late 80s, still runs Koch Industries. The transition from the the that built the company to whatever comes next is, from a purely operational standpoint, a question that the company’s management and its major shareholders will have to address.
Julia’s 42% stake means that the family she heads is the largest shareholder in a company that Charles Koch controls, but does not solely own. What an empire actually is. The word empire is used deliberately and knowingly in the title of this video. It is not being used to describe a political domination or a military conquest.
It is being used to describe the specific thing that Fred Koch built in Wichita in 1940 and that Charles and David expanded across eight decades into one of the most powerful concentrations of private, economic, and political capital in American history. Empires are built by individuals with specific combinations of intelligence and ambition and ruthlessness and vision.
And they are inherited by people who had nothing to do with the building. The empires of history, whether industrial, political, or dynastic, have always faced the question of what happens when the people who built them are replaced by the people who were simply born into them or, in Julia’s case, married into them.
The Koch empire is not falling in the sense of declining. Koch Industries continues to generate revenues exceeding $100 billion annually under Charles Koch’s management. The company continues to operate across its extraordinary range of industries and geographies. The political network that the brothers built has continued to function, though it has evolved in the years since David’s death and the changed political landscape of the post-Trump era.
What is falling in the specific sense of descending to the next level, is the specific configuration of Koch family power that David and Charles built together. David is gone. Charles is in his late 80s. The 42% stake that David’s death transferred to Julia and her children represents a permanent and significant change in the ownership structure of the company.
The children who will eventually inherit Julia’s share are young people whose values and priorities and relationship to the Koch legacy are not yet visible in the way that their parents were. The specific irony of Julia Koch’s position is that she represents the precise kind of mobility that the American story celebrates.
The girl from the furniture store in Iowa who arrived in New York, learned its world, married into its highest levels, and now holds one of the largest private fortunes in human history, while inhabiting a position that is also the product of something much less mobile. She did not build Koch Industries. She did not develop the oil refining process that Fred Koch invented.
She did not make the business decisions that turned a Wichita oil company into a hundred billion dollar a year conglomerate. The fortune she holds was built by other people over 80 years, and she holds it because she married the right person at the right time. The Kochs’ ideology, as David expressed it, was organized around the idea that wealth created through voluntary exchange was morally legitimate, and that the government had no right to redistribute it through taxation.
The wealth that Julia now holds was created in exactly that way, through voluntary transactions, through the development and sale of products that people chose to buy, through the specific compound growth of a successful business managed over decades. The political philosophy embedded in the Koch fortune is a philosophy about how wealth of this kind should be treated.
Julia is now the inheritor of both the fortune and the philosophy, and the choices she makes about what to do with the former will say something about her relationship with the latter. Julia Koch is, in the fullest sense, standing at the transition point. She is the bridge between the empire as it was built and the empire as it will be inherited.
She is the woman who grew up in a furniture store in Iowa, who moved to New York and learned its social world from the inside at $200 a week, who met a man on a blind date and was unimpressed, and who found herself, 28 years later, holding one of the largest fortunes ever accumulated by a private family in the history of the United States.
She woke up on August 24th, 2019, as one of the 10 richest people on Earth. She has spent the years since deciding what to do about it, quietly, privately, on her own terms, without explaining herself to anyone who hasn’t earned the explanation. That, too, is a kind of inheritance from the world she married into. The Kochs have always believed that what they do with their money is their own business.
There is a woman in a penthouse apartment on East 76th Street who woke up one morning as one of the 10 richest people on Earth and has spent the years since being precisely that, a person of extraordinary private wealth making choices that will shape American business, philanthropy, sports, and perhaps eventually politics, without explaining herself to anyone who hasn’t earned the explanation.
Whether that is a statement of admirable discretion or an illustration of the specific way that extraordinary private wealth operates beyond ordinary accountability is a question that she, like the empire she inherited, is still in the process of answering. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe to our channel so you never miss out on more fascinating stories.
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